Stunning Historical Photos of Toronto Streets from the 1930s

#1 Queen & Bay, 1937

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#2 3360 Yonge Street, west side, north of St. Germain Avenue. View is looking north-west, 1936

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#3 2804 Dundas Street West looking south-east, 1936

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#4 Eglinton Avenue West and Lascelles Boulevard. View is looking south-east, 1936

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#5 Mt. Pleasant & Broadway looking southwest, 1936

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#6 Yonge Street, north of Frichot Avenue looking south-west, 1936

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#7 Yonge Street and Jackes Avenue looking southeast, 1936

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#8 Davenport Road – Police Station No. 5., 1937

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#9 Woodbine & Kingston Road looking east, 1936

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#10 Blessed Sacrement RC Church. Yonge and Cheritan, 1936

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#11 Hope Gospel Church, Yonge Street, west side, between Imperial Street and Glebe Road, 1936

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#12 Yonge Street and St. Germain Avenue looking north-west, 1937

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#13 Yonge south of Eglinton looking north, 1937

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#14 Bloor & Jane looking west, 1936

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#15 C.N.R. bridge – West of Lansdowne looking northeast, 1936

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#16 Canadian Pacific Railway Yard – Bloor Street, 1936

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#17 Gerrard & Munro looking east towards Broadview, 1936

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#18 A train station on the left, 1936

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#19 Yonge Street, at Church Street looking south to the Morrissey Hotel, 1936

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#20 Yonge looking south towards Marlborough, 1937

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#21 Yonge between Soudan and Eglinton. Caulfied’s at 2187-89, 1937

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#22 Dundas & St. Johns looking east towards Clendenan, 1936

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#23 Queen Street East and Hastings Avenue looking east, 1936

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#24 Queen Street East and Rushbrooke Avenue looking south-west, 1936

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#25 Beach Moving & Storage Company, 525 Kingston Rd., just west of Lee Ave., 1936.

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#26 Highway 2, 1936

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#27 Three young boys are posing on the base of the board. The billboard is opposite the Ridley Arms, a Standard Hotel, at 2301 Danforth Avenue, 1936

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#28 Yonge Street and Snowdon Avenue looking south-east, 1936

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#29 Yonge Street and Keewatin Avenue looking south-east, 1936

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#30 South-east corner of Yonge Street and Davisville Avenue, 1936

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#31 North-west corner of Queen Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue, 1936

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#32 Billboard adjacent to a building at 1003 Danforth Avenue, near Donlands Avenue. Two more billboards bearing the company name De Luxe Advertising Company Limited, one advertising Gorrie’s Chevrolet Oldsmobile and the other Purity Bread Limited, 1936

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#33 View is looking northwest from ‘new’ Kingston Rd, 1936

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#34 View looking west on Kingston Rd. to TTC Stop 13 at Sharpe St., Birchcliff Heights, Scarborough, 1936.

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#35 Bloor & Brock looking east, 1936

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#36 Yonge & Church looking northeast, 1936

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#37 Yonge & Davenport looking east to Church Street. 1936

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#38 Davenport Road near Blackmore Street, 1936

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#39 Yonge Street, 1936

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#40 Danforth looking west towards Broadview, 1936

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#41 Avenue Road & Davenport facing west, 1936

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#42 Davenport & Yonge looking west, 1936

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#43 Spadina & College looking southeast, 1937

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#44 Guild Inn – Just 10 Miles, 1937

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#45 Queen & Kent looking west, 1937

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#46 Bay & Davenport looking south, 1937

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#47 St. Clair West Station, looking E to Holy Rosary, 1937

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#48 Mark Rowan Yonge Street on east side just north of Lawrence looking southeast, 1938

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#49 Chaplin & Yonge looking Northwest, 1937

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#50 Thanks Curtis Webster Acme Farmers Dairy 2359 Danforth Avenue looking west, 1937

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#51 St. Clair Avenue West and Old Weston Road. View is looking north-east, 1937

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#52 Lakeshore near Humber loop, looking eastward, 1937

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#53 Service station adjacent to the Dominion Coal and Wood silos on Mount Pleasant Road, at Merton Street looking south, 1937

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#54 Danforth and Broadview avenues. View is looking west across the Prince Edward Viaduct, 1937

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#55 Toronto, 1938

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#56 Bloor & Bellair looking northeast, 1938

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#57 Bay & Bloor looking northeast, 1938

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#58 Yonge & Bloor looking northwest, 1937

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#59 University & Adelaide looking southwest, 1938

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#60 King & Charlotte looking east, 1938

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#61 2001 Bloor Street West, looking west. That’s the roof of the Runnymede library in the centre background, 1937

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#62 Looking east on Bloor towards South Kingsway. Big building in the distance still stands as Dogtopia of Bloor West Village, 1937

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#63 Highway 11 (Yonge Street), 1937

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#64 Billboard near Bloor Street East, 1937

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#65 Woodbine Avenue & Kingston Road facing east, 1937

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#66 Eastern & Mosley facing east, 1937

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#67 Magic Baking Powder – Electric sign, located atop a building at the south-west corner of College and Grace streets, 1937

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#68 O’Keefe’s Dry Ginger Ale, Special Soda, Lime Rickey – College Street, 1937

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#69 184 Bloor Street West. View is looking north-west, 1938

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#70 College Street, at Dovercourt Road, south-east corner, 1938

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#71 Davenport Road, at Dupont Street looking south, 1938

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#72 The Consumers’ Gas Company service vehicle with trailer, 1938

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#73 Yonge Street & Price Street looking south-east. Shell gas station is still there. The apartment at Rowanwood has lost its balconies. transit tracks veer off to the left probably a loop, 1938

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#74 Broadview & Danforth looking northwest, 1938

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#75 Chatsworth Manors Apartments under construction, Yonge Street & Chatsworth Drive looking northwest, 1938

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#76 Dundas West looking east towards Yonge Street, 1938

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#77 Broadview & Danforth facing west, 1938

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#78 Looking northwest towards Coxwell & Danforth, 1938

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#79 Eglinton & Henning looking southwest, 1938

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#80 British-American Service Station – College Street, 1938

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#81 British-American Service Station – College Street, 1938

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#82 Robinette’s Red Indian Service Station – Southeast corner of Woodbine & Kingston Road, 1938

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#83 Yonge Street, 1937

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#84 Aylmer Catsup – Lake Shore Road, 1937

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#85 Toronto, 1937

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#86 Avenue Road & Oxton looking north. Imperial station is now Esso & Supertest is now Husky, 1937

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#87 Avenue Road looking north towards Oxton, 1937

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#88 Canadian General Electric Company Limited plant, 1937

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#89 Canadian General Electric Company Limited plant, 1937

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#90 King Street East looking west towards the King Edward Hotel, 1939

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#91 Somewhere on Davenport in 1937

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#92 Another Dominion, unknown location, 1937

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#93 Gerrard Street East and Ontario Street. View is looking east, 1937

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#94 Danforth Avenue and Linsmore Crescent. View is looking north-east, 1937

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#95 Broadview and Browning avenues. View is looking south-east, 1937

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#96 Spadina Road and Dupont Street. View is looking north-east, 1937

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#97 Bay Street at Bloor Street West, south-east corner, 1937

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#98 Hydro property – Macpherson Avenue, 1937

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#99 Unknown Hydro property location, 1937

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#100 Unknown Hydro property location, 1937

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#101 2871-2873 Dundas Street West, 1939

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#102 1500 Queen Street West, 1939

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#103 526 Danforth Avenue, at Ferrier Avenue, north-east corner, 1939

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#104 393 Jane Street, 1939

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#105 1475 Yonge Street, 1939

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#106 3404 Yonge Street, 1939

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#107 Bloor Street West and Willard Avenue, north-west corner, 1939

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#108 14 Bloor Street East, 1939

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#109 Bloor Street West, east of Dovercourt Road, 1939

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#110 515 St. Clair Avenue West, at Bathurst Street, 1939

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#111 Yonge Street at Davenport Road, 1939

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#112 122 Carlton, 1939

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#113 1990 Danforth Avenue, 1939

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#114 2022 Queen Street East, 1939

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#115 Danforth & Macey looking southeast, 1937

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#116 Tony Solimine Lakeshore near Humber loop, looking eastward, 1937

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#117 Riverside Drive & Bloor Street West looking southeast, 1937

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#118 33 Front Street East. St. Lawrence Centre is now, 1937

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#119 University & Front looking west, 1937

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#120 Avenue Road & Chaplin looking southeast, 1937

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#121 Davenport looking southeast towards Hillsboro, 1939

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#122 Bloor looking west to Sherbourne, 1939

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#123 Bloor Street West and Riverside Drive, Swansea, 1939

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#124 Danforth & Macey facing west, 1939

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#125 Eastern & Woodward looking west, 1939

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#126 Bathurst & Eglinton looking west, 1939

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#127 Painted signage on the side of a silo, Macpherson Avenue, east of Davenport Road, 1939

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#128 Signage on the side of a silo, Macpherson Avenue, east of Davenport Road. View is looking east, 1939

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#129 Browns Bread on Eglinton Avenue West. Where on Eglinton, 1939

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#130 No information on the location, 1939

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#131 145 Danforth Avenue. The Century Theatre can be seen at the left of the image adjacent to a Spick & Span Cleaners location, 1939

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#132 345 Danforth Avenue, 1939

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#133 Yonge Street, east side, at Ranleigh Avenue looking north, 1939

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#134 Yonge Street south of Eglinton looking south, 1939

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#135 Bloor Street West, south side, west of Windermere Avenue looking southwest, 1939

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#136 Looking north on Bay towards Davenport, 1939

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#137 Church & Asquith looking north, 1939

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#138 Chaplin Cres. looking east towards Yonge & Davisville, 1939

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#139 Bloor looking west towards Sherbourne, 1939

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#140 University & Queen looking southeast, 1939

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#141 Keele & Bloor looking west, 1938

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#142 982 Kingston Road. A & P is now Gabby’s, 1939

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#143 Looking southwest to Bathurst & Eglinton, 1939

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#144 Eglinton Avenue West & Lascelles looking east, 1937

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#145 View is looking south on Bathurst Street, across Eglinton Avenue West, 1937

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#146 Wilkinson Public School class, 1932.

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#147 LCBO Liquor store, 424 Spadina Avenue, March 18, 1930.

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#148 A customer emerges with their brown paper bag from the LCBO liquor store at Robina Ave. and St. Clair Ave. W., March 18, 1930.

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#149 LCBO Liquor store, northeast corner of Dupont St. and Spadina Rd., March 18, 1930.

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#150 LCBO Liquor store at Robina Ave. and St. Clair Ave. W., March 18, 1930.

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#151 Looking east across James St. to Eaton’s Queen St. department store from the front lawn of Old City Hall, 1930

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#152 A closeup view looking south of new billboards placed on top of and beside Superior Fish & Chips, 1887 Yonge Street, 1935

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#153 Looking south east to The Superior Fried Fish Café, 1887 Yonge Street, 1930

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#154 Speers’ Esso Service. Station opened in 1938.

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#155 Simpson’s department store delivery truck, 1930s.

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#156 Imperial Oil service station Davenport and Dupont, 1938

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#157 Toronto, aerial view looking east, 1932

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#158 Toronto aerial view, looking south, 1932

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#159 Toronto, aerial view looking west, 1932.

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#160 Toronto, aerial view looking north, 1932

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#161 Recollections and Notes Toronto Canada’, 1930

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#162 Sunnyside Pool postcard, from ‘Recollections and Toronto Canada’, 1930

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#163 Fort Rouille monument Toronto, 1930

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#164 Metropolitan Church, 1930

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#165 Government House / Chorley Park postcard, 1930

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#166 Gooderham Fountain, 1930

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#167 Provincial Parliament Buildings, 1930

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#168 Canada Life Building, University Ave., west side, north of Queen Street West, 1933

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#169 Canada Life Building, University Ave., west side, north of Queen Street West, 1933.

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